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The nominees for this year’s Hugo Awards were announced today via the Hugo Award website and a small handful of science fiction conventions throughout the world. The Hugo Awards website also announced that they broke their previous record of nomination ballots by a substantial amount, with 1,343 ballots compared to last year’s 1,101. It is worth pointing out the differences between these Hugo Award nominees and the recent Nebula Award nomination announcement. Among the Best Novel nominees, only Kim Stanley Robinson’s2312 and Saladin Ahmed’sThrone of the Crescent Moon were nominated by both the Hugos and the Nebulas.

Once again, Paolo Bacigalupi’s wonderful The Drowned Cities was snubbed by voters, but John Scalzi’s amusing but underwhelming Redshirts received a nomination. If you’re interested in seeing the nominations in other categories, head over to the Hugo Awards website. Be sure to comment and let us know what you think of the nominees, and which works you believe were unfortunately overlooked.

The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America have announced the nominees from 2012 Nebula Awards, the winners of which will be announced as a part of the Nebula Awards weekend, May 16th thru 19th. Unlike the Hugo Awards, which are voted on by any supporting member of that year’s World Science Fiction Convention, the Nebula Awards are voted on solely by full members of the SFWA. Becoming a member requires getting either a novel or three short stories published in the traditional manner, so it is only the true peers of the nominees that are voting. Here are some of the nominated categories and this year’s nominees:

It seems like a pretty huge snub that Paolo Bacigalupi‘s The Drowned Cities and Ian Tregillis‘ The Coldest War weren’t nominated in the novel category, though this isn’t meant to disparage those who did receive nominations. Whether either of these will make it to the Hugo Award ballot remains to be seen, as those nominations will be announced on March 30th via the Hugo Awards website.